Cannot silence phone call ringtone in MacOS 26

[richie510]

I have updated my phone/mac/ipad/watch to 26. Now, every time I receive a phone call my Mac Mini blasts some default ringtone. I have disabled notifications completely in the "Phone" and "FaceTime" sections of the MacOS settings. In "Notifications from iPhone" I have disabled FaceTime notifications, but I do not see a "Phone" item.

All of my other devices have a "Silent" mode that I have been using faithfully for more than a decade. I do not think MacOS has a similar "Silent" mode, but I would love to be proven wrong.

Some more things I have tried include disabling all notifications from my phone, and I poked around in the FaceTime and Phone app on MacOS. I cannot find anything to stop the Mac from blasting sound for every phone call. I also tested this on my wife's MacBook Air shortly after updating all her stuff to 26, and I got the same result.

To be clear, I do like the visual notification when someone is calling, I just do not want it blasting a ringtone ever.

Has anyone else experienced this or found a solution?

 

[morsy]

I’m facing the same issue and am trying to find a solution.

 

[richie510]

The only thing I have found so far that will have any effect on this situation is to turn on Do Not Disturb on my Mac and also tell the mac not to "Share across devices" my focus status, as I still want my phone/watch to vibrate when a phone call comes in.

 

[kkclstuff]

this is a VERY big oversight by Apple! All of the devices should have both Share Settings (like Focus) and independent controls for this situation

 

[snerkler]

Did anyone ever find a solution to this? I've recently updated to Tahoe and can't turn the ringtone off without having to turn the speakers off.

 

[ignatius345]

My iMac doesn’t ring when I get incoming calls because I just disconnected it from using my iPhone to make/receive calls (it was more annoying than helpful to me).

Are people unchecking this setting in the Phone app on their Macs?

 

[snerkler]

My iMac doesn’t ring when I get incoming calls because I just disconnected it from using my iPhone to make/receive calls (it was more annoying than helpful to me).

Are people unchecking this setting in the Phone app on their Macs?

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I can stop it from ringing through the Mac completely, however I'd like it to still ring through and show the notification but not have it make a sound.

 

[ignatius345]

I can stop it from ringing through the Mac completely, however I'd like it to still ring through and show the notification but not have it make a sound.

Ah, I see.

What I would recommend would be to just use a custom ringtone that’s silent -- but apparently macOS doesn’t make it possible to use custom sounds from ~/Library/Sounds in Phone or Messages.

You can use custom sounds as ringtones in iOS, but as usual Mac users get sloppy seconds from the iPhone.

 

[NoBoMac]

but as usual Mac users get sloppy seconds from the iPhone.

I'll counter with my peeve, MacOS Calendar allows adding more than two alerts to an event while i*OS allows up to two. 19 years now for that particular sloppy seconds.

It's just that the different OS silos, and at higher levels, are not interested in commonality. No fun for devs and no money to be made off aligning/fixing things.